COLLECTIONS OF CORRESPONDENCE AND MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS NAME OF COLLECTION: CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT Papers SOURCE; gift Of MrSt Irene P. Dickinson, 1979 SUBJECT; Environment; Nuclear pover plants; Consolidated Edison Company, New York$ U..S. Atomic Energy Commission/Nuclear Regulatory Commission DATES COVERED; 1966-1979 NUMBER OF ITEMS; ca. STATUS; (check appropriate description) Cataloged; x Listed; x Arranged; x Not organized: CONDITION: (give number of vols., boxes, or shelves) Bound; Boxed; 22 Stored: LOCATION: (Library) Rare Book & Manuscript CALL-NUMBER Ms Coll/CCPE RESTRICTIONS ON USE None DESCRIPTION: Papers of the Citizens Committee for the Protection of the Environment, Ossining, N.Y., a citizens action group, include correspondence, memoranda, reports, statements, notes, news releases, U.S. Atomic Energy/Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing records, and printed material. Founded in 1968, this organization has devoted its activity to the quality of the environment in the lower Hudson River Valley, particularly the environ- mental hazards of Consolidated Edison's Indian Point nuclear power plants. The correspond- ence contains letters from supporters, members of other environmental groups, New York State legislators, U.S. senators and congressmen, scientists, and CCPE's attorney for the Indian Point hearings. Chief correspondents of the group are Larry Bogart, Executive Director, Dr. George Candreva, President, and Irene P. Dickinson (Mrs. Leon A.), Executive Secretary and Coordinator, whose files these are. There are numerous letters from Congressmen John G. Dow, Richard Ottinger and Peter Peyser. The cataloged correspondence contain three letters from Senator Jacob K. Javits, and one each from Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, and Louis J. Lefkowitz, New York State Attorney General. In addition to CCPE's own memos, statements, news releases, brochures and other printed ephemera, Mrs. Dickinson maintained an environmental subject file which includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles, newsletters, and other printed ephemera issued by a variety of environmental groups as well as some related correspondence. The files on the Indian Point nuclear power plant, approximately 1,800 items, contain photocopies of U.S. AEC/NRC hearings documents such as testimony before the Commission, inspection reports, D3(276)M (OVER) correspondence of the Commission, Consolidated Edison, CCPE and its attorney, Anthony Z. Roisman, of Berlin, Roisman and Kessler, Washington, D.C. The printed materials include pamphlets, newspapers, newsletters and other publications issued by a variety of citizens action groups. FOR A LIST OF THE COLLECTION SEE FOLLOWING SHEETS. Brc/Pmw 10/79 Papers of the CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT Box 1 Catalogued Correspondence Jacob K. Javits Edmund S. Muskie Louis J. Lefkowitz Margaret Chase Smith Arranged Correspondence Irene P. Dickinson 1969-1977 Box 2 Shelved General files of CCPE (some correspondence; chiefly news releases, notes, memos, clippings, AEC/NRC documents) 1966-1979 Subject file Abnormal Occurrences ALAP Hearings - AEC Alliances Alternative Sources of Energy - Milaca, Minnesota Benson, Jim Bertell, Rosalie Bibliography Breeder Reactor/CRBR Box 3 Shelved othftF CcPE Testimony Citizens Waste Information Committee Clearwater Comey, David D. Committee for Nuclear Responsibility Commoner, Barry Conversion Conference - Washington, D.C. 1971 Decommissioning Decontamination Emergency Plans Ethics of Nuclear Power Fluoridation - Water Funding for Public Participation Heronemus, William Initiatives - People's Lobby Intervenor Funding Jobs and Energy JCAE Box k (Shelved off-«fte Komanoff Associates KV Lines Labor Action Coalition Labor and Energy Legislators Licensing Lovins, Amory Low-level Radiation Box 5 Shelved off-site Media, Press Microwaves Nader, Ralph CCPE National Assessment of Educational Progress National Council of the Churches of Christ - Statement/Response - Rossin, A. David National Intervenors ' \ National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Natural Resources Defense Council Natural Resources Defense Council - Spent Fuel Disposal Costs Box 6 Shelved off-site New Roots New York City Council on the Environment New York City Department of Health New York State Legislature - Energy New York State Public Service Commission Nuclear Moratorium Nuclear Plant Workers Nuclear Reactors Nuclear Waste Incinerator Nuclear Waste Management - Citizen Participation Nuclear Waste Management - Interagency Review Group Nuclear Waste Management - Report TID28817 Other Cases Box 7 Shelved off-«fte Plutomium Lawsuit 1975 Pollard, Robert - Testimony Price - Anderson Act Public Power Radioactive Waste Incinerator ••—\ Radioactive Waste Transport Safe Energy Act 1975 Safe Energy Coalition - New York State Secrecy - Nuclear Power Sierra Club - Radioactive Waste Proposal Silkwood Supporters Siting and Licensing Solar Access Union of Concerned Scientists Weik, Mary H. Weil, George - Coal and Radioactivity Women World Council of Churches - Statement on Nuclear Energy WorldWatch Institute United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission—Indian Point- Station Units 1-2 Box 8 1970 - 1972 Shelved off-site Box 9 191k Shelved of/^ee Box 10 1975 Shelved off-site ) Box 11 January - March 1976 (seismic) Shelved Box 12 April - December 1976 (seismic) ^Shelved off-site CCPE Box 13 Shelved off-site 1976 Inspections B X ° ^ ^ 1O77 Shelved off^fte February 1977 March - December 1977 - 1978•S*ielved Box 16 Shelved offcite 1977 Inspections Printed Materials:, Periodicals Box 17 Sietved otf-afte A - C (including large gcoup of Critical Mass Journal) Box 18 Shelved off-rfte D - M Box 19 shelved off-site Box 20 Shelved off-site 0 - w Boxes 21 - 22 Shelved off-site Printed Ephemera (pamphlets, mimeographed reports, brochures, etc.).